Cost Manager

About the Role

Cost Planning and Estimating

• Prepare feasibility, concept, schematic, and detailed design cost plans and estimates.
• Prepare Bills of Quantities and pre-tender estimates.
• Produce concept estimates for feasibility studies and business cases.
• Develop and present recommended pre-bid and pre-construction budgets and cost plans.
• Create and manage detailed cost plans aligned with project master schedules.

Contracts and Procurement

• Administer commercial contracts, including remeasurement, valuations, interim and final accounts, variations, and claims.
• Prepare tender instructions, tender appendices, contract conditions, and contract documents.
• Implement project procurement in line with corporate policies and recommend procurement strategies.
• Analyze and level bid and tender responses and present recommendations to clients.

Project Cost Control

• Manage budgets, schedules, procurement, quality, and risk throughout planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout.
• Create funding documents and ensure project work complies with client funding systems and policies.
• Maintain cost reports, cash-flow strategies, accruals, and cost guidance for project teams and clients.
• Reconcile estimates and change orders and advise on cost risks and mitigation strategies.
• Review invoices and requests involving allowances, contingencies, and reserves.

Value Engineering and Closeout

• Lead or support value engineering workshops and track cost savings and value targets.
• Support life cycle costing for LEED and sustainability initiatives when appropriate.
• Negotiate and settle final accounts and support project funding and accounting closeout.
• Capture project costs for CBRE benchmarking and estimating databases and tools.

Required Qualifications

• Five to eight years of relevant experience.
• Ability to lead difficult information exchanges, convey performance expectations, and handle problems.
• Leadership skills to motivate teams across multiple disciplines.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.
• Intermediate mathematics skills for complex financial calculations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is preferred.
• RICS accreditation is preferred.
• Experience in staffing, selection, training, coaching, mentoring, performance measurement, appraisal, rewards, and retention is preferred.

Why CBRE